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When Ice Cube split from N.W.A after the group's seminal Straight Outta Compton album changed the world forever, expectations were high, too high to ever be met by anyone but the most talented of artists, and at his most inspired. At the time Cube was just that. With AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted the rapper expanded upon Compton, making a more full-bodied album that helped boost the role of the individual in hip-hop. Save the dramatic intro where a mythical Ice Cube is fried in the electric chair, his debut is filled with eye-level views of the inner city that are always vivid, generally frightening, generally personal, and sometimes humorous in the gallows style. Ripping it quickly over a loop from George Clinton's "Atomic Dog," Cube asks the question that would be central to his early career, "Why there more niggas in the pen than in college?," while sticking with the mutual distrust and scare tactics N.W.A used to wipe away any hopes of reconciliation ("They all scared of the Ice Cube/And what I say what I portray and all that/And ain't even seen the gat"). "What I'm kicking to you won't get rotation/Nowhere in the nation" he spits on the classic "Turn Off the Radio," which when coupled with the intoxicating Bomb Squad production and Cube's cocksure delivery that's just below a shout, makes one think he's the only radio the inner city needs. The Bomb Squad's amazing work on the album proves they've been overly associated with Public Enemy, since their ability to adapt to AmeriKKKa's more violent and quick revolution is underappreciated. Their high point is the intense "Endangered Species," a "live by the trigger" song that offers "It's a shame, that niggas die young/But to the light side it don't matter none." This street knowledge venom with ultra fast funk works splendidly throughout the album, with every track hitting home, although the joyless "You Can't Fade Me" has alienated many a listener since kicking a possibly pregnant woman in the stomach is a very hard one to take. Just to be as confusing as the world he lives in, the supposedly misogynistic Cube introduces female protégé Yo-Yo with "It's a Man's World" before exiting with "The Bomb," a perfectly unforgiving and visceral closer. Save a couple Arsenio Hall disses, AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted is a timeless, riveting exercise in anger, honesty, and the sociopolitical possibilities of hip-hop.
© David Jeffries /TiVo
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Eric Sadler, Producer - Ice Cube, Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Sir Jinx, Producer - Brian Holt, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1990 Priority Records, LLC
Eric Sadler, ComposerLyricist - Ice Cube, Producer, Co-Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Sir Jinx, Producer, Co-Producer - The Bomb Squad, Producer
℗ 1990 Priority Records Inc.
Keith Shocklee, ComposerLyricist - Eric Sadler, ComposerLyricist - Brian "Big Bass" Gardner, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ice Cube, Producer, Co-Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Sir Jinx, Producer, Co-Producer, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - The Bomb Squad, Producer - DAN WOOD, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Ricky Harris, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - J Dee, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1990 Priority Records, LLC
Alan Gorrie, ComposerLyricist - Ice Cube, Producer, Co-Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Sir Jinx, Producer, Co-Producer - Average White Band, Musician, AssociatedPerformer - The Bomb Squad, Producer - The Lench Mob, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Irvine J. Weldon, Jr., ComposerLyricist
℗ 1990 Priority Records, LLC
William Collins, Composer - Eric Sadler, Composer - JD, Composer, Narrator - George Clinton, Composer - Ice Cube, Composer, Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sir Jinx, Producer, Co-Producer - The Bomb Squad, Producer - Al "Purple" Hayes, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal)
℗ 1990 Priority Records, LLC
O'Shea Jackson, Composer - Ricardo Thomas, Composer - Shannon, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Ice Cube, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sir Jinx, Producer, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - The Bomb Squad, Producer, Co-Producer - Al "Purple" Hayes, Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Bryson Evans, Composer - Jackie Farmer, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1990 Priority Records, LLC
Carlton Ridenhour, ComposerLyricist - T-Bone, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Eric Sadler, Musician, AssociatedPerformer - Eric T. Sadler, ComposerLyricist - Ice Cube, Producer, Co-Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Chuck D., Musician, AssociatedPerformer - Sir Jinx, Producer, Co-Producer - Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - The Bomb Squad, Producer - Ricky Harris, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - The Lench Mob, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Shabazz, Musician, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1990 Priority Records, LLC
Eric Sadler, Musician, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Ice Cube, Producer, Co-Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Chuck D., Vocals, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sir Jinx, Producer, Co-Producer - The Bomb Squad, Producer, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - The Lench Mob, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1990 Priority Records, LLC
Eric Sadler, Composer, Producer, Co-Producer, Musician, AssociatedPerformer - Ice Cube, Composer, Producer, Co-Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sir Jinx, Producer, Co-Producer - The Bomb Squad, Producer, Co-Producer - DAN WOOD, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Krissta, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Tim "Timteo" Rollins, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Son Of Beserk, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Lil Les, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1990 Priority Records, LLC
O'Shea Jackson, ComposerLyricist - John S. Marascalco, ComposerLyricist - Ice Cube, Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Leo Price, ComposerLyricist - Sir Jinx, Producer - The Bomb Squad, Producer, Co-Producer - Flavor Flav, Vocals, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Anthony D. Wheaton, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1990 Priority Records, LLC
Eric Sadler, Composer, Musician, AssociatedPerformer - Ice Cube, Composer, Producer, Co-Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sir Jinx, Producer, Co-Producer - The Bomb Squad, Producer
℗ 1990 Priority Records, LLC
Keith Shocklee, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Ice Cube, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sir Jinx, Producer, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1990 Priority Records, LLC
William Collins, ComposerLyricist - T-Bone, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Keith Shocklee, ComposerLyricist - Eric Sadler, Musician, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - George Clinton, ComposerLyricist - Ice Cube, Producer, Co-Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Bernie Worrell, ComposerLyricist - Sir Jinx, Producer, Co-Producer, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - The Bomb Squad, Producer - Al "Purple" Hayes, Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - J Dee, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1990 Capitol Records, LLC
O'Shea Jackson, ComposerLyricist - JAMES BROWN, ComposerLyricist - Fred Wesley, ComposerLyricist - Ice Cube, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Vincent Henry, Flute, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Sir Jinx, Producer - The Bomb Squad, Producer - The J.B.'s, Musician, AssociatedPerformer - St. Clair Pinckney, ComposerLyricist - Tim "Timteo" Rollins, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Son Of Beserk, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1990 Priority Records, LLC
yo-yo, Vocals, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Ice Cube, Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Sir Jinx, Producer, Musician, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1990 Priority Records, LLC
T-Bone, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Ice Cube, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Sir Jinx, Producer, Musician, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - The Bomb Squad, Producer, Co-Producer - Ricky Harris, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - J Dee, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1990 Priority Records, LLC
Album review
When Ice Cube split from N.W.A after the group's seminal Straight Outta Compton album changed the world forever, expectations were high, too high to ever be met by anyone but the most talented of artists, and at his most inspired. At the time Cube was just that. With AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted the rapper expanded upon Compton, making a more full-bodied album that helped boost the role of the individual in hip-hop. Save the dramatic intro where a mythical Ice Cube is fried in the electric chair, his debut is filled with eye-level views of the inner city that are always vivid, generally frightening, generally personal, and sometimes humorous in the gallows style. Ripping it quickly over a loop from George Clinton's "Atomic Dog," Cube asks the question that would be central to his early career, "Why there more niggas in the pen than in college?," while sticking with the mutual distrust and scare tactics N.W.A used to wipe away any hopes of reconciliation ("They all scared of the Ice Cube/And what I say what I portray and all that/And ain't even seen the gat"). "What I'm kicking to you won't get rotation/Nowhere in the nation" he spits on the classic "Turn Off the Radio," which when coupled with the intoxicating Bomb Squad production and Cube's cocksure delivery that's just below a shout, makes one think he's the only radio the inner city needs. The Bomb Squad's amazing work on the album proves they've been overly associated with Public Enemy, since their ability to adapt to AmeriKKKa's more violent and quick revolution is underappreciated. Their high point is the intense "Endangered Species," a "live by the trigger" song that offers "It's a shame, that niggas die young/But to the light side it don't matter none." This street knowledge venom with ultra fast funk works splendidly throughout the album, with every track hitting home, although the joyless "You Can't Fade Me" has alienated many a listener since kicking a possibly pregnant woman in the stomach is a very hard one to take. Just to be as confusing as the world he lives in, the supposedly misogynistic Cube introduces female protégé Yo-Yo with "It's a Man's World" before exiting with "The Bomb," a perfectly unforgiving and visceral closer. Save a couple Arsenio Hall disses, AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted is a timeless, riveting exercise in anger, honesty, and the sociopolitical possibilities of hip-hop.
© David Jeffries /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 16 track(s)
- Total length: 00:49:21
- Main artists: Ice Cube
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Priority Records
- Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap
© 2015 Priority Records LLC ℗ 2015 Priority Records LLC
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